pieces with their Khanjars, and died among the sheep he was defending.8 A number of Arabs have related the grim stories of the deaths of shepherds in the wilderness. Some were shot by marauding bandits who would take the number of sheep desired and then flee, unchallenged by anyone else. This fact became a depressing reality when Mohammad Yaseen showed me a place next to a valley where he had personally covered over the remains of a bedouin shepherd who had been shot in defense of his sheep. Many